Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A method comprising: providing a portal server executing portal software that allows an administrator to build at least one web site for users, wherein the portal software comprises a library of portlets; using the portal software, allowing the administrator to build a portal web page for the web site by selecting at least a first portlet, wherein the first portlet comprises a first social collaboration tool; associating the first portlet to the portal web page, wherein the first portlet is accessible to users accessing the portal web page; using the portal software, allowing the administrator to enable social activity tracking of assets created using the first portlet, wherein when social activity tracking is enabled, for each of a plurality of actions associated with the assets, the administrator can specify parameters comprising a type of social equity and a number of points associated with the type of social equity; extracting assets associated with the first portlet executing on a portal web page; based on the parameters specified by the administrator, associating with each asset of the assets created using the first portlet a type of social equity and a number of points associated with the type of social equity; tracking the assets on the portal web page; detecting a first action by a first user with a first asset of the assets created using the first portlet on the portal web page; and based on the first action, incrementing, in a social equity points database for the first user, a first number of points for a first type of social equity.
2. The method of claim 1 comprising: after exceeding a threshold, resetting in the social equity points database the points associated with the first user.
3. The method of claim 2 comprising: before the resetting in the social equity points database, based on the parameters specified by the administrator for tracking of social activity, processing a plurality of threshold values for each type of social equity.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein the threshold is a length of time.
5. The method of claim 2 wherein the threshold is a number of points.
6. The method of claim 2 wherein the resetting is to a zero point value.
7. The method of claim 2 wherein the resetting is to a non-zero point value.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first number of points are visible to the first user.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the first number of points are hidden from the first user.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the portal web page comprises an enterprise portal.
11. The method of claim 1 comprising processing the social equity points database to generate a leaderboard.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein the first action comprises creating the first asset.
13. The method of claim 1 wherein the first action comprises adding a blog entry associated with a blog portlet.
14. The method of claim 1 wherein the first action comprises adding a wiki entry associated with a wiki portlet.
15. The method of claim 1 wherein the first action comprises adding a message board entry associated with a message board portlet.
16. The method of claim 1 wherein the listing of social activity is inaccessible to the first user.
17. The method of claim 1 wherein a type of social equity comprises at least one of contribution, participation, or popularity.
18. The method of claim 1 wherein the first portlet is a Java-standard portlet.
19. The method of claim 1 comprising: associating a second portlet to the portal web page, wherein the second portlet is accessible to users accessing the portal web page.
20. The method of claim 1 comprising: associating a second portlet to the portal web page, wherein the second portlet is accessible to users accessing the portal web page; and extracting assets associated with the second portlet on the portal web page.
21. The method of claim 20 comprising: based on the parameters specified by the administrator, associating with each asset of the assets created using the second portlet a type of social equity and a number of points associated with the type of social equity.
22. The method of claim 21 comprising: tracking the assets associated with the second portlet on the portal web page; detecting a second action by a second user with a second asset of the assets associated with the second portlet; and based on the second action, incrementing, in a social equity points database for the second user, a second number of points for a second type of social equity.
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July 10, 2018
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